Åsa Norman

 

(b. 1984)

A textile artist living and working in Stockholm. Educated at HDK Steneby and Konstfack. Founder and member of Minibar Stockholm and DNK – Den nya kvinnogruppen. Many times her projects are collaborations, last years often with craft artist Frida Hållander. For example, in the project Öxabäck IF – Without you no tomorrow (2016). And in an ongoing project that will reenact the play Fabriksflickorna [Factory girls] by Suzanne Osten and Margareta Garpe from 1980. The play depict the textile crisis in Sweden (1950–1980) and the seamstress’s collective: those who opposed.